Refining of crude alcohol, represented by the two bottles on the bottom step, at the Belle WV plant of the DuPont Company's Polychemicals Department, produces five intermediate alcohols, represented by bottles on the second step, and finally the...

Within the last few years, the chemist has developed a new kind of soap. Starting with ordinary vegetable and animal oils, the chemist now makes fatty alcohols which, in combination with sulfuric acid and other chemicals gives a new class of...

Fatty alcohols, from which soapless soaps are made, produce unusual suds, as was shown by the demonstration at the former DuPont Exhibition at the New York Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center. On the right, Zerone anti-rust...

Water flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Companys Belle, WV Works....